Scouring the Business of Technology

This will be my last post for this blog… Hope you enjoy my previous articles. Meanwhile, I am consolidating all my other blogs into one which unifies my personal mission to bring a clear pathway toward a meaningful IT career. Henceforth, all my blog … Continue reading Moving to a new blog

Courtesy: Inquirer.net Apple has just 8 percent of the global phone market, but makes about 80 percent of the industry’s operating profits. Wall Street analysts expect Apple Inc. to post a profit of $9.2 billion for the January to March … Continue reading Business Model of Apple

Note: This is a reprint from Open-E Blog There is plenty of talk about Bonding and Multipath IO, but it is very difficult to get solid information about either one. Typically what documentation can be found is very bulky and … Continue reading Bonding and MPIO

Courtesy: Enterprise Irregulars Point 1: NoSQL technologies require more investment than Relational to get going with. The remarks from Netflix are pretty clear on this. From the Netflix “Tech” blog: Adopting the non-relational model in general is not easy, and Netflix … Continue reading NoSQL is Premature Optimization

After the storm has passed regarding GigaOM’s controversial post Facebook trapped in MySQL ‘fate worse than death‘, Derrick Harris made his message clear once and for all: Whatever database technology someone might choose to use for a new web application, … Continue reading Scaling MySQL

Courtesy: HighScalability.com Update 4: Why you don’t want to shard. by Morgon on the MySQL Performance Blog. Optimize everything else first, and then if performance still isn’t good enough, it’s time to take a very bitter medicine. Update 3: Building … Continue reading To Shard or Not To Shard

Courtesy: HighScalability.com What do you get when you take a SQL database and start a new implementation from scratch, taking advantage of the latest research and modern hardware? Mike Stonebraker, the sword wielding Johnny Appleseed of the database world, hopes you … Continue reading VoltDB in Summary